Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer

HSBC Group; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services company is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to build and manage their Azure infrastructure. You'll be responsible for application deployments, managing Azure connectivity, and ensuring compliance with security standards. Ideal candidates will have extensive Azure experience and strong teamwork skills in a DevOps environment. This role offers the chance to contribute to a significant financial organization with global reach.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable Azure experience - infrastructure build and configurations.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills in an agile environment.
• Experience operating in a highly regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage Azure foundation platform for application deployments.
• Execute functional pattern lifecycle process for code library.
• Manage Azure connectivity and networking.

Skills

Azure experience in infrastructure build

Leadership and teamwork skills

Extensive experience of Security protocols

Technical knowledge of Azure technology services

DevOps principles and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts

Education

Industry recognized cloud certifications (Az-104, Az-400)

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.DescriptionThe Azure Cloud engineer will work within the global Azure Cloud Services team and will be responsible for building highly resilient, scalable, reusable and performant Azure infrastructure in an automated and efficient manner.Reporting to the Azure Engineering Lead and working across the Azure Cloud Services team, Microsoft and Cyber Security to ensure that we are delivering functional patterns that are secure-by-design and compliant with HSBC mandatory policies and security standards.Key Accountabilities

• Build and manage HSBC Azure foundation platform to enable application deployments and engineer solutions on Azure foundation platform using Infrastructure-as-Code methods (e.g. Terraform)
• Execute the functional pattern lifecycle process (design, document, develop and maintain) code library
• Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM, networking, monitoring, Operating systems, Containers.)
• Manage Azure connectivity and networking e.g. Express Route, DNS, IP allocation and traffic routing, NSG's and Azure Firewall
• Consume centrally agreed base HSBC Hardened OS images (Linux and Windows)
• Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency) comply with centrally defined Security
  
  Demonstrable Azure experience - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, SDN Managing their own time and prioritising workloads
• Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment with DevOps application 'pods' to provide Azure specific capability/skills required to deliver the service
• Extensive experience of Security protocols. Frameworks within cloud platform team, and proven experience of cloud Databricks, Data factory, strong cloud Networking
• Technical knowledge and breadth of Azure technology services (Identity, Networking, Compute, Storage, Web, Mobile, Containers, Databases, Analytics, AI & Machine learning)
• Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and techniques
Desirable Skills
• Industry recognised cloud certifications. Az-104 or Az-400
• Programming experience in the following languages: PowerShell, Terraform, Go, Bash, Windows command prompt and object orientated programming languages
• Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat
• Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services